This Strat-styled guitar incorporates sleek lines and supple contours to fit snuggly to your body.Learn to play guitar

The FG-521 features our Shelby Designs Custom Pickup Assembly with a high-output, one-custom humbucker/two single coil set-up that provides you with a palette of tones to rock out with. The Shelby also inclues the N-Tune Tuner for convienant, fast, and accurate tuning. The Fretlight neck includes our patented Advanced Polymer Fretboard and the worlds only built-in LED learning system. Finished with chrome hardware including a fixed bridge, a two-way truss rod and fully adjustable bridge saddles give you complete adjustability for a playing experience that can only be described as pure heaven. And don't forget, the Advanced Polymer Fretboard and Stratabond birch neck gives your tone a sustain that you've only dreamed about!

The NEW Fretlight FG-500 guitar sports some significant changes, all aimed toward making theFretlight the world’s easiest guitar to play.

The FG-500’s electronics have been upgraded to an all-new Sonix Flash chipset, complete with on-board capability for future growth, and fully compatible with all existing Fretlight software. The new high efficiency electronics produce the brightest and most consistent LED lights ever. Whether you’re lighting a simple riff, or a scale across the entire fretboard, the lights will maintain a consistent brightness.

Additionally, all FG-500 guitars have a Stratabond™ neck. Stratabond is a state-of-the-art engineeredLearn to play guitarhardwood that yields uncommon strength and rigidity across ever changing environmental conditions. Perfect for a guitar necks that are susceptible to expansion and contraction due to varying humidity levels. The FG-500’s Stratabond birch neck will provide very consistent performance for years to come.

The Fretlight lighted guitar learning system allows a player to light-up songs, over five thousand chords and scales patterns, and riffs right on the neck of the Fretlight guitar. The Fretlight connects to a PC or Mac and there are lessons, songs and interactive videos available which all light up the guitar.

Optek's proprietary Shelby Designs Alnico Pickups have flat-matched Alnico II magnets that give you a sweet, smooth responsive tone yet punch with attack when you drive them. These hotter wound pickups also yield increased sustain through the mid-range frequency thus balancing out your overall sound. Get the originality of passive pickups and the benefits of today's technology.

Optek's custom pickup and control wiring allows the tone to remain the same even at different volume levels. Yes, our volume control is actually usable throughout its entire range! We changed the capacitors and the wiring so that finally, the volume and tone knobs actually work the way they are supposed to.

The Shelby's builtin N-Tune is the world's most convenient solution for fast, accurate guitar tuning.

Whether you're in the studio, on stage, or just practicing, simply pull your guitar's volume knob and use N-Tune's super-bright display to silently tune up in seconds. Then push it back down to play -- with no affect on your instrument's tone, thanks to N-Tune's true bypass design which removes all tuning circuitry from your signal path.